Indoor 6s

[Mr Belly]

A thread for the Indoor 6s....

Mufs have entered the Cricket Scotland Indoor Media Sixes tournament, drawn in Group C with Freuchie and Preston Village.

Our schedule is:

25 Jan 7.30 Mufs vs PV
25 Jan 8.30 Freuchie vs Mufs
22 Feb 7.30 Mufs vs Freuchie
22 Feb 8.30 PV vs Mufs

7 Mar Finals Night.

There will be a "match fee" per night - probably £5 - to help cover some of the entrance fees. We need to know who is interested in playing - please email us at [e-mail], thanks.

El Wardio will kindly be arranging our team .

[mggw]

[glow=red,2,300]Results from 1st Round:[/glow]
Preston Village (14 pts) Vs Murrayfield-Dafs (5 pts)

Preston Village 126-4
Adam Scott 2-0-19-1
Martin Ward 2-0-17-1
Phil Rogers 2-0-20-0
Gowtham Rai 2-0-23-0
Sutha Rangaswamy 2-0-45-1
(1 r.o.)

M-Dafs 119ao (5 wkts)
Danny Abraham 55
Adam Scott 11
Gowtham Rai 5
Sutha Rangaswamy 23
Phil Rogers 8*
Martin Ward 1

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Murrayfield-Dafs (4 pts) Vs Freuchie (14 pts)

Freuchie 138ao
Phil Rogers 2-0-25-0
Martin Ward 2-0-23-2
Ian Shiels 2-0-31-0
Sutha Rangaswamy 2-0-30-0
Gowtham Rai 2-0-17-1
(2 r.o.)

M-Dafs 62ao
Sutha Rangaswamy 8
Ian Shiels 0
Danny Abraham 12
Gowtham Rai 20
Phil Rogers 12
Martin Ward 6*

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[glow=red,2,300]Combined stats so far...[/glow]

	Runs	Bat ave	Inn	Wkts	Bwl ave	Bwl econ
Danny Abraham	67	33.50	2	--	--	--
Adam Scott	11	11.00	1	1	19.00	9.5
Gowtham Rai	25	12.50	2	1	40.00	10.0
Sutha Rangaswamy	31	15.50	2	1	75.00	18.8
Phil Rogers	20	20.00	2	0	--	11.2
Martin Ward	7	7.00	2	3	13.3	10.0
Ian Shiels	0	0	1	0	--	15.5

Thanks to all who played, especially Adam and Ian for offering to sit out a match so everyone could play, and to Phil for taking the scores.

[mggw]

[glow=red,2,300]Results from Round 2:[/glow]

Freuchie Vs Murrayfield-Dafs

Freuchie 164/2
Martin Ward 2-0-23-0
Adam Scott 2-0-25-0
Sutha Rangaswamy 2-0-33-0
Lindsay Towns 2-0-46-0
Gowtham Rai 2-0-32-1
(1 r.o.)

M-Dafs 125ao 9.0 overs
Jigar Patel 39
Gowtham Rai 17
Sutha Rangaswamy 3
Adam Scott 0
Lindsay Towns 32*
Martin Ward 22

On winning the toss, Freuchie elected to bat first and made a cautious start with some accurate bowling in the first over producing an early run out chance. The ball was hit straight back to me, and choosing to run to the stumps rather than throw I managed to swing right over the top, much to everyone else's amusement! Unfortunately it was an expensive mistake as the Freuchie batsmen were little troubled dispite our best efforts with the ball, and made a very challenging score with the loss of only two wickets.

In reply, Mufs started very well with Jigar - playing his first game - and Gowtham both starting brightly, and despite the loss of Sutha and Adam cheaply, Lindsay Towns continued the good work. We were well on track with the run rate, but unfortunately lost too many wickets. Jigar then Lindsay retired on 25 to return to bat with me, but we were unable to maintain the rate.

It was a much improved performance with the bat, however, and for a while we had the Freuchie lads worried.

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Murrayfield-Dafs Vs Preston Village

M-Dafs 92ao 6.1 overs
Jigar Patel 9
Gowtham Rai 28
Lindsay Towns 12
Adam Scott 4
Soni 13*
Martin Ward 4

Preston Village 94/1 8.3 overs
Martin Ward 2-0-13-0
Adam Scott 2-0-20-0
Gowtham Rai 1.3-0-23-0
Soni 2-0-24-0
Lindsay Towns 1-0-14-0
(1 r.o.)

Having been inserted by Preston Village in our second game, played back-to-back with the first, we started scoring again at a good rate. Unfortunately no one this time was able to score big runs, and while we were on track for a high score the quick loss of our last two wickets saw us bowled out for a below-par 92 with 4 overs remaining when we could reasonably have expected to score 140+.

Nevertheless, we defended the small total well with everyone bowling economically and putting pressure on the batsmen. The wickets didn't fall, and Preston Village reached the target with 9 balls to spare for the loss of only 1 wicket.

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[glow=red,2,300]Tournament stats:[/glow]

	Runs	Bat ave	Inns	Overs	Runs	Wkts	Bwl ave	Bwl econ
Danny Abraham	67	33.50	2
Adam Scott	15	5.00	3	6	64	1	64.00	10.7
Gowtham Rai	70	17.50	4	7.3	95	2	42.50	12.7
Sutha Rangaswamy	34	11.33	3	6	108	1	108.00	18.00
Phil Rogers	20	20.00	2	4	45	0	--	11.2
Martin Ward	33	11.00	4	8	76	3	25.33	9.5
Ian Shiels	0	0	1	2	31	0	--	15.5
Lindsay Towns	44	44.00	2	3	60	0	--	20.0
Jigar Patel	48	24.00	2
Soni	13	--	1	2	24	0	--	12.0

Highest innings score: 125 Vs Preston Village
Highest individual score: 55 Danny Abraham Vs Preston Village
Best bowling: 2/23 Martin Ward Vs Freuchie
Best economy: 2 over 13 runs Martin Ward Vs Preston Village